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...group of Straus Hall first-years has started a petition to protest paying for an oriental rug that is missing from the hall's common room...
Kelly's monument still stands just outside the iron fence of Harvard Yard where Straus Hall ends. His face keeps watch on all those who pass--the students, tourists, shopkeepers, punks, and derelicts who rush to descend into the tunnels he helped to build, hopping onto the Red Line or just-muttering to themselves while wandering aimlessly, looking for a place to urinate. With the recent erection of the "Magnetic Poetry Wall," some may believe that the spirit of Harvard Square has reached its nadir, particularly if one is reading the latest attempt at actual verse or simply another adolescent...
...Crace's Quarantine (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 243 pages; $23) novelizes the Temptations of Christ, adding a plot bubbling with sin and a supporting cast of odd pilgrims. Crace, a British journalist turned novelist (The Gift of Stones, Continent), is not the first writer to take fictional liberties with Scripture. He won't be the last. But his new effort proves to be one of the more successful reimaginings. Readers and critics in Britain thought so: when Quarantine was published there last year, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award...
Richard S. Lee '01 is a resident of Straus Hall...
Anyone who's ever been on a tour of the campus knows the Widener story. The intrepid, but not-too-bright Harvard grad who went back into the ship as it was sinking to rescue a rare manuscript. But very few ever learn the Straus tragedy. And of those who do, fewer remember this random piece of school trivia. Apparently Mrs. Straus had a spot on one of the life boats, but refused to leave her husband. She stayed and they both drowned together as Titanic sank. In their memory, the Straus' children donated Straus Hall. Proof that while Harvard...